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3232Bookshelf: “Discovering The Motorcycle”http://ride-ct.com/bookshelf-discovering-the-motorcycle/
http://ride-ct.com/bookshelf-discovering-the-motorcycle/#commentsTue, 18 Sep 2018 15:51:31 +0000http://ride-ct.com/?p=23420As much as some riders might wish it were so, it wasn’t Harley-Davidson (or even Indian) that invented the V-twin engine that has been the staple power plant of motorcycles for well over a century. In fact, the V-twin wasn’t even invented in the United States. No, its origin can be traced to Germany where …

]]>http://ride-ct.com/bookshelf-discovering-the-motorcycle/feed/1Travel Tips From “Magnificent Motorcycle Trips” Authorhttp://ride-ct.com/travel-tips-from-magnificent-motorcycle-trips-author/
http://ride-ct.com/travel-tips-from-magnificent-motorcycle-trips-author/#respondTue, 12 Jun 2018 19:41:15 +0000http://ride-ct.com/?p=22775She lives in the Yorkshire Dales in northern England and has been riding motorcycles for 25 years. Colette Coleman has also been writing about them for a long time, too. Ten years ago, she authored “Great Motorcycle Journeys of the World,” which took riders to exotic and just plain gorgeous places. That book has just …

]]>http://ride-ct.com/travel-tips-from-magnificent-motorcycle-trips-author/feed/0Bookshelf: Two New Triumph Tomeshttp://ride-ct.com/bookshelf-two-new-triumph-tomes/
http://ride-ct.com/bookshelf-two-new-triumph-tomes/#respondTue, 27 Mar 2018 15:28:21 +0000http://ride-ct.com/?p=22388Celebrating the past and admiring vintage and new models are a part of the motorcycling experience, and two recent books on the iconic Triumph brand enable readers to do just that: “Triumph Motorcycles in America” is a coffee table-style book jammed with pictures and historical data. Written by Lindsay Brooks and David Gaylin, it is …

]]>http://ride-ct.com/bookshelf-two-new-triumph-tomes/feed/0Lifelong Ride For Gloria Tramontin Struckhttp://ride-ct.com/lifelong-ride-for-gloria-tramontin-struck/
http://ride-ct.com/lifelong-ride-for-gloria-tramontin-struck/#respondMon, 12 Mar 2018 20:49:08 +0000http://ride-ct.com/?p=22255CLIFTON, NJ – It was the near the end of a 20-minute phone conversation last week about her new autobiography that Gloria Tramontin Struck paused for a moment to reflect on her life. “If my brother had taken ‘No’ for an answer, my life would have been so different. So sad, so sad if I didn’t …

]]>http://ride-ct.com/lifelong-ride-for-gloria-tramontin-struck/feed/0Bookshelf: “Why We Ride”http://ride-ct.com/why-we-ride/
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:52:56 +0000http://ride-ct.com/?p=21326In hindsight, it probably wasn’t so hard to predict that rider and psychologist Mark Barnes would be successful writing about motorcycling. In his first column for “Motorcycle Consumer News” some 21 years ago, he wrote that “motorcyclists can be divided into two types.” There are those who are happy to turn the key and go, …

]]>“Longmire” Solves Sturgis Mysteryhttp://ride-ct.com/longmore-sturgis-mystery/
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:05:21 +0000http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=18428Craig Johnson is a best-selling author and a motorcycle enthusiast. His “Longmire” mysteries about a Wyoming sheriff have sold more than 1.5 million copies and been turned into a television series that shifts from the A&E cable network to the Netflix streaming service this month. A new novel, “An Obvious Fact,” gets published Tuesday and …

]]>“Bikers Are Animals” … But In A Nice Wayhttp://ride-ct.com/between-the-covers-bikers-are-animals/
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:01:20 +0000http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=8369Paul Jamiol and Friends By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Paul Jamiol holds the opinion that bikers are animals. No, not animals like the thugs who attacked the SUV driver in New York in late September or the inconsiderate types who ride with excessively loud exhaust pipes and shatter the tranquility, rather actual animals, such as …

]]>Bookshelf: “Conversations with a Motorcycle”http://ride-ct.com/book-review-conversations-with-a-motorcycle/
Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:49:04 +0000http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=6822As an avid reader, I sometimes wish that I kept a yellow felt-tipped pen on the nightstand beside my bed. That way I could highlight catchy phrases and memorable passages in the books that I read. This would make it easy to locate them at a later time because you never know when you might need …

]]>Bookshelf: Pierson Shares World of “LD” Ridershttp://ride-ct.com/pierson-shares-world-of-ld-riders/
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:42:21 +0000http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=3353By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com When I was a kid, my parents had a rule of never traveling together on the same flight. Their rationale was that air travel was too risky. This was back in the days before Jetways when airlines flew prop planes like the DC-7 and passengers had to walk across the …

]]>Bookshelf: Did Beverly Cleary Inspire Kids to Ride?http://ride-ct.com/did-beverly-cleary-inspire-kids-to-ride/
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:47:02 +0000http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=1684By Bud Wilkinson Children’s author Beverly Cleary, who turned 95 yesterday, has written 42 books and sold more than 75 million copies of them. She’s introduced generations of youngsters to the joy of reading through the characters of Henry Huggins, Ralph the Mouse, and Beezus and Ramona. As a kid, I read about Henry, Beezus and Ramona, but somehow Ralph …

]]>Bookshelf: Reading Suggestions for Ridershttp://ride-ct.com/reading-suggestions-for-ct-riders/
Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:11:26 +0000http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=926By Bud Wilkinson Christmas is less than three weeks away. Have you put your bike(s) into winter storage yet? Or are you foot-dragging because you don’t want to quit peg-dragging? The bikes can wait. Holiday shopping cannot and RIDE-CT always offers some gift ideas for motorcycle lovers. While some new over-the-calf heated socks from Gerbing’s …